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Dee Dee Ramone
 Post subject: Eric Sykes - RIP
PostPosted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 11:46 am 
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Another genius passes on....

His silent film "The Plank" still causes my kids to crease up.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18704263

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PostPosted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 3:49 pm 
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Sad news a true great,I had the very great pleasure of meeting him at the south bank awards a few years back what a gentle man.Such a hugely talented man too.

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PostPosted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 6:47 pm 
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Agree. Very sad. Heard him interviewed on Robert Elms last year and he was really sharp.

We always used to watch him when we were kids. My dad thought Hattie Jacques was a stunner. x
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He reminds me of my childhood too. He always had a twinkle in his eye and looked on the verge of laughter most of the time. God bless him.

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Such a lovely man, and so very very clever - he reminds me of Saturday night tele when I was a kid, he was just 'always there' - he and Hattie Jaques, just a great double act.
Bless them both.
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Yes, sorry to hear this news. Used to love watching him & Hattie Jacques. Often think of one storyline where they'd bought a cat, which kept clawing the bedclothes from Eric's bed, so he'd tied them - & himself - on with rope :*: ..>

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My dad loved Eric Sykes – and loved Hattie Jacques, he thought she was beautiful. Her and Nurse Gladys Emmanuel. Likes a woman in good proportion, my dad. x
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Really sad to hear this yesterday - memories of childhood watching Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques in our house - such a shame

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 06, 2012 1:27 pm 
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oh yes .. sad news, I loved Eric Sykes, Hattie Jacques, Tony Hancock, Jimmy whatsisname (does anyone else remember Freddie Frinton??). Made me think of those long gone days when I used to laugh at stuff on the tele ..

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(does anyone else remember Freddie Frinton?


Yes!!! Big teeth and a daft hat!!! :mrgreen: (*)
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 Post subject: Re: Eric Sykes - RIP
PostPosted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 4:46 am 
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Sykes was a great comic writer and performer. I adore The Plank and he wrote Goon shows with Spike Milligan so for those alone he deserves to be remembered. Of course his talents were more diverse than that and he was a person I always liked to hear in interviews.

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